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YouTube tests harder-to-block server-side ad injection in videos

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YouTube tests harder-to-block server-side ad injection in videos

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[email protected]English • 8 months ago

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YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements.

YouTube reportedly now injects ads directly into video streams to make it more difficult for ad blockers to block advertisements.

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Had unskippable ads encoded right in the other day. Went to Freetube instead, worked fine.

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